A form of taxation based on land value will affect Scottish landowners, developers, forestry businesses and farmers if implemented.
A Scottish National Party decision to explore the potential for a land value tax could “set alarm bells ringing” among farmers, an opposition MSP has argued in parliamentary questions at Holyrood.

The UK's worth grew by the largest amount on record to reach £9.8tn at the end of last year, boosted by land value, which has grown "more than fivefold" since 1995, according to official data.
Combining the UK’s total assets, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that the UK’s value increased by 8.9pc or £803bn between 2015 and 2016. The country’s net worth has risen steadily since 2012, following a course in line with pre-financial crisis conditions.

Average arable land values in England and Wales have slipped back to 2012 levels as a market correction in the eastern counties continues.
Carter Jonas says data from its transactions shows arable values at £8,967/acre – about 8% down on the same period last year.

Land prices are likely to fall substantially post Brexit if Defra secretary Michael Gove delivers on his intention to redirect farm support away from direct payments into rural development and environmental programmes.

A flurry of launches across Wales and its bordering counties has sparked the region’s summer farmland market to life.
As Farmers Weekly reported last month, stunted supply was a feature of the Welsh land market last summer.

The gap between the top and bottom of the farmland market is widening with some buyers paying up to 40% less for land in the same county.
Agents are reporting the largest disparities in arable prices in eastern England.

Non-farmer buyers have paid an average of £700/acre more for English farmland over the past five years, analysis of sales has shown. Research from Strutt & Parker shows lifestyle buyers, investors (including overseas purchasers) bought a higher total number of acres from 2013 to 2017, but farmers were involved in more transactions.

In October last year, Tony Gallagher threw his friend David Cameron a 50th birthday party at Sarsden House, his 17th-century mansion near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. He served a dinner of roast beef and lamb, cooked on his Aga, to a private gathering of 23 people.
At the same time, Gallagher was also quietly planning to sell the company that he had built up over three decades, accumulating land, gaining planning permission, and auctioning it off at vast profit. After reportedly holding talks with the Pears family, the Wellcome Trust and Berkeley Homes, Gallagher Estates was sold to housing association L&Q in January.

Demand for new homes in regional cities has boosted the price of urban land, with smaller housebuilders snapping up almost double the amount of land in the last year due to increased Government funds and more accessible finance.